While we’ve seen many a side-by-side body transformation photo from female bloggers all over, we haven’t seen many come from guys – despite them also feeling a pressure to look physically perfect.

However, one guy is stepping up the game by sharing his own body transformation photos in a recent Facebook post. Though his message is a little different to what most would expect.

On 19th July 44-year-old dad-of-five Chris Berg shared two photos of himself, one where he appears to be toned, and the other where he’s a little less sculpted, in a bid to hilariously parody the generic fitness transformation.

Chris’ message wasn’t to tell others of how a fitness regime affected his appearance – his story explained how he’d gone from being physically ripped to a ‘dadbod’ – and how he was sick of the pressures that came with being muscular. And it was absolutely brilliant.

Explaining the photo on the left, in which a young Chris is visibly muscular, Chris explained that he was ‘dangerously thin’ – and that he was always being hounded by women.

He wrote: ‘No matter what I tried I could not cover up my abs or my muscles. Women flocked to me concerned for my health without being asked. All my pants were baggy and my shirts a size medium.

‘It was awful.’

He went on to say how he was tired of the ‘long stares of disgust from the ladies’ and ‘random men’ asking him what he benches – and so he decided to start ‘the journey’ to transform his body into a ‘temple of health’. In short, Chris decided to welcome his dadbod.

Chris said: ‘After 23 years I am now near a perfect dadbod. Women leave me alone now knowing that I do not need to be nursed back to health. No men ask me if I can spot them at the gym because I do not go.

‘It feels good to see something through…something for me.’

As a note to all men who are ‘tired of looking into the mirror and seeing where one muscle ends ad another begins or being asked to take your shirt off by people you don’t know’, Chris asks that they join him in his journey to health.

(Picture: Getty)

He concluded: ‘I will be lecturing at the TacoBell on 4th Plain all week. Hope to see you all.’

Sure, Chris’ post is just a parody, but it does send a strong message as to how men too are often succumbed to pressure over their appearance – even if it doesn’t make them truly happy.

What with the number of muscly models with six packs and V lines posing on men’s health magazines, it’s understandable that for guys who don’t have rock-hard abs, it can be disheartening.

This is why it’s great that Chris has made light of the situation that it’s totally okay to have a dadbod, especially as you grow older.

Regardless of how Chris intended his post to be perceived, it’s definitely a message for guys that they don’t need to be totally ripped to be happy.

And it seems his message has been heard loud and clear, as the post, which has received more than 60,000 likes, has received many comments from guys who could totally relate to the photos.

(Picture: Chris Berg)

One person said: ‘Well said took me 58 years to get here’, while another added: ‘Well played man. All hail to dad bod.’

If you’re happy with your dadbod, that’s great. If you want to spend all your time in the gym, that’s also great.

But as Chris’ post suggests, it’s always important to do and be what’s going to make you happy (and then write a post about it to gain thousands upon thousands of likes).

Chris told Metro.co.uk that he was inspired to write his post in hopes other men his age would be able to identify with it.

‘I see so many before/after weight loss posts I thought it would be funny to do a reverse on that,’ he said.

On having a dadbod, Chris says he’s indifferent to it. He told us: ‘I am what I am and I am comfortable with that. That is why it does not bother me to have 60,000 people sharing a picture of me without my shirt on.

(Picture: Chris Berg)

‘Would I like to look like I did when I was 21? Sure I would (and my wife wouldn’t mind that either), but we all age, our bodies don’t respond to exercise and diet like it used to and that is okay. That is life.’

Chris feels that being muscly is not the norm for a man of his age, despite being fed images of fit and hairless chested men with muscles by the media.

‘That is how companies want us to feel we should look,’ says Chris.

‘It’s our shame and vanity that makes them billions. I am not falling for that. Having said all that what us men are subject to is nothing compared to what women are taught. I have four daughters I see what they go through and want them to know that confidence is important and that other’s opinions of what a woman should look like is not important.’

Chris says: ‘I am shocked that this post has received the attention it has. To be honest with you it is not even close to by best work. But this one has been shared like 60,000 times or something like that.

(Picture: Chris Berg)

‘I am getting private messages from people in Saudi Arabia, Canada, and now in the UK. Having said that about half of the messages were from people trying to sell me their diet crap.

‘I think over 80% of the likes and comments have been very positive and get the joke. I laugh at a lot of the negative comments about how my post endorses fatness, one guy called me a “slurpy McDouble Chewbacca”. I enjoyed that one a lot…of course he is a personal trainer, so there’s that.’

He continued: ‘I am surprised how many people don’t get the joke or actually get angry about my dadbod. People are crazy. This experience has given me a tiny glimpse into what famous people must go through on a daily basis.

‘I am also happy to report that out of all the feedback at least 3 woman and 2 men still like what they see in my after picture. I am going to cling to that.’

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